2022 Metaverse or multiverse? The interconnected metaverse? The community-connected metaverse? The metaverse hub?

Metaverse or multiverse? 

The interconnected metaverse? 

The community-connected metaverse? 

The metaverse hub? 

A discussion in the metaverse about connecting the metaverse segments into a unified whole.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Metaverse connection issues: summary of discussion
• Notes after the break

Location

• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000005&dl=true

Participants 

• Dieter Heyne--CybaLOUNGE developer
• https://metaverse.school/
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• Jamie Jordan--Rding a Wheelie
• https://ridingawheelie.com/
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• Steve LaVigne--Immworlds
• https://immworlds.com/ 
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• Selby Evans 
• https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/

Specific discussion segments

• Community, identity, and privacy
• One metaverse or few big ones?  

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Summary of issues

The identity issue

• These elements carry your identity
• Your credentials: You might be able to carry these to other grids
• If the other grid accepts your credentials, you would not have to register there.
• Your avatar: If the other grid can use the format, you can have the same appearance.
• You inventory (selected items): You might be able to carry these items with you.
• These elements can be implemented independently.  
• A big problem with sharing credentials would be security.

Multiverse

• Many independent virtual worlds (grids).
• Decentralized in the broad sense, but most of the grids are not.
• Exception: OpensSimulator/hypergrid.

The interconnected metaverse

• Many people believe that the metaverse should be interconnected.
• That means that some or all of the Identity issues could move from grid to grid.
• Presently OpenSimulator/hypergrid is the closest match to that ideal.
• What OpenSimulator/hypergrid needs to qualify as the beginning metaverse. It already has most of the needed features: A meeting in the metaverse.
• The lowest level of interconnection is text and voice communication.

The community-connected metaverse

• People only want to be connected to people they want to interact with.
• Thus metaverse segments might focus on particular communities.
• There might be separate metaverse regions for gamers, educators, businesses. and  performances

The metaverse hub

• Hub manages identity, avatar, inventory, and communication
• Connection: Instant text messages, voice 
• A hub could support user access to multiple cooperating grids
• Depending on level of cooperation, the hub might offer some of these services.
• The hub model would not require standardizing metaverse software.  
• The hub would have its own standards and could convert to the standards of cooperating grids.
• Metaverse hubs to connect the metaverse. The focus is on shared interests, not tech. Because the metaverse is made of people.
• Metaverse: the many worlds model. How can the metaverse be decentralized and interconnected? Metaverse hub

Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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